In edition #86 of Internet Security Week , the federal government wants to create a battalion of ethical hackers, Azure blocked the largest DDoS attack in history, phishing affected more than 150 million Brazilians in 2021, and much more.
News
Criminals clone executive's voice to steal US$35 million.
A $35 million theft was carried out from a bank in the United Arab Emirates without threats, weapons, or sophisticated malware, but rather through the cloning of the voice profile of an executive from a large company.
By Felipe Demartini on Canaltech
71 reasons to update Windows as soon as possible
During the last Patch Tuesday, Microsoft fixed a total of 71 vulnerabilities. The most dangerous of these is CVE-2021-40449, a use-after-free flaw in the Win32k driver that cybercriminals are already exploiting.
By Renato Rodrigues in Kaspersky Daily
The federal government is considering creating a battalion of "ethical hackers."
"Ethical hackers" is a way of referring to white hat hackers – those who know how to act as hackers, carry out intrusions, and create malware, but use this knowledge to combat malicious hackers. Hence the term "ethical".
By Fábio Marton in Olhar Digital
Microsoft Azure blocked the largest DDoS attack in history.
In early August, Microsoft released a report on DDoS attacks targeting the Azure platform in the first half of 2021. What the company didn't know was that, just a few days later, it would have to mitigate the largest attack of its kind on record. The attack reached a traffic of 2.4 Tb/s (terabits per second) at its peak—a record.
By Emerson Alecrim on Tecnoblog
US security agency is concerned about ransomware evolving into "killware"
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is warning that the next cyberattack could end up killing people – a dangerous and imminent shift from ransomware to “killware”.
By Victor Tangermann in Futurism
Phishing attacks affected 150 million Brazilians in 2021.
Phishing continues to be a serious security threat. Research conducted by dfndr lab, PSafe's cybersecurity laboratory, projects that more than 150 million Brazilians were victims of this type of scam in 2021 alone.
By Dácio Castelo Branco on Canaltech
E-commerce developer exposes over 1.75 billion data points.
The marketplace and e-commerce integration platform, Hariexpress (which serves Correios, Mercado Livre, Amazon, Shopee, Magalu, Americanas, Shoptime, Submarino, among others), left more than 1.75 billion records in over 610 GB of confidential data exposed, accessible through an unprotected Elasticsearch server.
By Guilherme Petry in The Hack
Cyber threats reach $40 billion in the first half of the year.
Digital attacks against companies surpassed $40 billion worldwide in the first half of the year, and there is no indication that they will slow down for the remainder of the year, according to the report "Attacks From All Angles: 2021 Midyear Cybersecurity Report" by the cybersecurity firm Trend Micro.
In CISO Advisor
Internet provider: how to help your subscriber protect themselves on the internet
In conversations with numerous internet providers, we've noticed a common desire to help subscribers protect themselves online. But (obviously, there's a catch), how can we educate our users and offer tools for protection while browsing the internet?
By Kelvin Zimmer on Lumiun Blog
FinSpy: the newest spying tool
At Kaspersky's recent Security Analyst Summit, experts presented a detailed report on the FinSpy spyware (also known as FinFisher) and its distribution methods, including some previously unknown ones.
By Julia Glazova in Kaspersky Daily
Material
[eBook] Safety and Prevention Guide for Internet Users
- Free material
- Some of the topics covered in the material:
- What is internet security?
- Most common cyberattacks
- Good internet security practices
- Accounts and passwords
- Social media
- Computer security
- Mobile device security
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